1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 461 Immigrant Transfer
December 1643, 1, Batavia.

"No more people can be put on the ship!" Qu Xingliang, the commercial commissioner of the Qi State Representative Office in Batavia, said seriously to a Dutch captain next to him: "Otherwise, there will be too many people on the ship, and people will be suffocated."

"Oh, respected Mr. Qu, you have paid us a lot of freight, and we naturally want to help you transport more immigrants. In this way, your contribution will be more valuable. Isn't it?" Wensum After hearing the words translated by the interpreter, the captain quickly replied with a smile.

"We don't want you to load more immigrants on board to save the so-called transportation costs." Qu Xingliang said: "We need your ships to ensure that every immigrant can reach our country of Qi alive. Moreover, The freight we pay you is not based on the head. Therefore, the number of people on board cannot continue to increase.”

"Well, as you wish." The captain of the Wensum shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said, "You Hanzhou people really take good care of the immigrants who arrive. I believe that when they arrive in your Hanzhou If you are in the continent, you will definitely live well."

"That's natural!" Qu Xingliang said proudly: "Every immigrant who arrives in our country of Qi can eat and wear warm clothes, and also have a piece of land that can be passed on to his descendants."

"Oh, God! When you say that, I want to immigrate to Hanzhou." The captain said with a smile.

"Really?" Qu Xingliang glanced at the bearded captain of the Dutch East India armed merchant ship, and said with a smile: "If you join our Qi State Navy, the rewards and benefits you get must be better than what you have now. The treatment is much more. You can seriously think about it, our Qi State Navy welcomes you at any time."

"Mr. Qu, please don't seduce our company employees in front of us." On the other side, East India Company Commercial Counselor Cap Reyes said with some dissatisfaction.

"Hehe..." Qu Xingliang smiled, looked at Cap Reyes and said, "Everyone has the desire to live a better life, and also has the freedom to pursue the realization of self-worth. What do you think, Mr. Reyes .”

As the commercial commissioner of the Qi State Representative Office in Batavia, Qu Xingliang not only conducts necessary business exchanges and goods sales, but also cooperates with the black guards stationed in Batavia to instigate rebellion and buy middle and low-level officials of the East India Company. To work, and to lure some sailors on the Dutch armed merchant ships and professional and technical personnel in the city to defect to Qi.

Qu Xingliang did not feel embarrassed even though he was pointed out in person by Karp Reyes, the commercial counselor of the East India Company who was in charge of arranging the transshipment of immigrants from Ming Dynasty.During his several months in Batavia, he has introduced more than [-] talents urgently needed in Hanzhou through various methods such as money, status, land, and even distribution of women. Sailors and junior officers.

In the face of high remuneration and favorable treatment, it makes no difference to these gold prospectors from European countries who come to the Far East whether they serve the East India Company or the government of Qi State in the Hanzhou Continent.Qi State has towns and villages built by Hanzhou people, industrial factories and mines, and agricultural production far above the level of native people.Apart from their differences in looks and beliefs, they belong to the advanced civilized world just like us Europeans, so serving them is a natural choice.

As for the commercial counselor Cap Reyes who explicitly warned Qu Xingliang not to seduce the captains and sailors of the East India Company, he also took a lot of benefits from the Hanzhou people in private, although he would not betray the East India Company , but for some blatantly inappropriate behaviors of the Hanzhou people, it is only a gentle warning.

"These Annan young women have been recuperating in Batavia for half a month. The people who boarded the ship this time have also been carefully selected, and their physical condition can basically meet the long-distance sea voyage. But you, as the caretakers on board, You still have to be cautious. Especially for the sailors on the ship, you must be extremely vigilant. Those people are not good birds!" Qu Xingliang came to a dozen immigration officers who were going to supervise the transportation on board, carefully exhorted.

"Don't worry, my lord!" said one of the leading officials: "These women are now members of our Great Qi Kingdom, and they will definitely not be bullied by those barbarians. Unless, all of us on board are dead. gone."

Qu Xingliang nodded. The first few batches that were transferred to the Dutch East India Company were basically young and strong men, including Ming people and Annan people, nearly 800 people.Today, the group of immigrants transported to the mainland are young Annan women who have recuperated for more than half a month. There are a total of [-] people, and they are transported by four armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company.

On the way, the ships will successively stop at Batang (now Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia) and Kupang, two strongholds of the Dutch East India Company, and Xinxiang City (now a small coastal town in the south of East Timor), the stronghold of Qi State on Timor Island. Zhensuai), and finally arrived at Jianye Port in the mainland of Hanzhou.

It is said that the number of migrants transported back by Qi Dajiang's Beihai (Timor Sea) Fleet has reached more than 5000, and to the delight of immigration officials, there are more than [-] women among them.Therefore, the immigration officials stationed in Batavia specially sent personnel to accompany the Dutch merchant ship back to the mainland in order to ensure that these women did not have any accidents on the way.

Since the North Sea Fleet has brought in more than 8000 immigrants, if the Ryukyu Fleet and the Weiyuan Fleet to the east can also bring back 11 people, then the population of the entire Qi State will reach [-] this year, and the scale of strength will rise to a higher level.
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"Since mid-to-late December, the Hanzhou people have transferred 4000 to 7000 people from Ming and Annan areas to Batavia for transit, and their fleet is still returning to Xinsheng Island under their control against the monsoon , Continue to transfer immigrants. Roughly estimated, they may send [-] to [-] people to the Hanzhou mainland during this immigration season." Fred Upton, Senior Commercial Counselor of the Dutch East India Company, is speaking to Governor During Reporting on Hanzhou immigrants, "However, it is believed that the ships transporting immigrants between Xinsheng Island and Batavia are only part of the Hanzhou transportation force. Oh, their part of the ship was named Beihai by the Qi military. fleet."

"Then, they are still active on another route with as many as ten immigration ships. Like the North Sea Fleet, they are also constantly transferring immigrants from the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, I have reason to believe that the immigration of the Hanzhou people The scale may reach a terrifying 1 people. God, 1 people, this is a very huge number, almost equivalent to the sum of all the personnel of our entire East India Company in the Far East.”

"Then, based on the number of immigrants on this scale, the total population of Hanzhou may not be the 5 to [-] people we once estimated, right?" Governor Cornelis Van der Lin was surprised. .

"A few years ago, the Hanzhou people probably didn't have so many boats, and the scale of immigration certainly wasn't so large." Fred Upton said: "Their population is currently roughly estimated to be around 8 to 1 people. But if the current immigration rate is followed, at least [-] people will be added every year in the future, and this does not include their birth population."

"Maybe in less than ten years, the population of Hanzhou will exceed 20. At that time, the Hanzhou continent will form a market size comparable to that of European states. Of course, our East India Company will also face a strong regional influence , a force that is strong enough to challenge us again. Therefore, we need to speed up the strategic layout of the East Indies, and we must further tie up and control the commercial network of Hanzhou." Governor Delin said.

"In order to deal with the future threats and challenges of Hanzhou, we need to defeat the Kingdom of Mataram and the Kingdom of Banten in the shortest possible time, and completely weaken them to the inland area. We also need to be between Kupang and Java Island Occupy key points on the many islands in the country, build a potential blockade line, and firmly trap the forces of the Hanzhou people in the Hanzhou mainland."

"In addition, we must continue to invest in our hidden stronghold Hollenburg at the northern end of the Hanzhou Continent (now Kitts Harbor in northern Australia, southwest of Darwin), to build it into a nail piercing into the Hanzhou Continent. It can become a strategic point to restrict Hanzhou."

"Governor, if this stronghold is discovered by the Hanzhou people in the future, how should we deal with it? It's not far from their Jianye Port!" Navy Commander Colonel Dachman Barek hesitated and asked softly .

"We've kept that stronghold a secret for three years. I don't think it's that easy for Hanzhou people to discover that stronghold." Governor Delin pondered for a moment, and then glanced at the high-level East India Company staff sitting there. , Said sternly: "Unless someone we are working on disclosed this news to the Hanzhou people."

"We are all loyal employees of the East India Company, and we are gentlemen with high reputation." Fred Upton said with a smile: "For the maintenance of the company's interests and the conservativeness of confidential affairs, I think all of us is trustworthy."

"Yes, we are fundamentally different from the Hanzhou people, and even to some extent, they are indistinctly antagonistic and competitive. In the East Indies, the interests of all of us are in the company." Duckman Barek said solemnly, but he felt a little guilty in his heart.

(End of this chapter)